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Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 – May 21, 1995) was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994. In Congress, Aspin had a reputation as an intellectual who took a middle-of-the-road position on controversial issues. He supported the Reagan administration regarding the MX missile and aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, but he opposed the B-2 bomber and the Strategic Defense Initiative. He played a major role in convincing the House to support the January 1991 resolution supporting the use of force by President G.H.W. Bush against Iraq, after it invaded Kuwait. As Secretary of Defense, he faced complex social issues, such as the roles of homosexuals in uniform, and of women in combat. He faced major decisions regarding the use of military force in Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti. He proposed budget cuts and restructuring of forces as part of the downsizing of the military after the end of the Cold War. The loss of American lives in Somalia because of inadequate military support led to his resignation.
==Early life==
Aspin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Shorewood High School.〔("Fund-raising drive begins for Les Aspin scholarship" ), ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', October 30, 1995. Accessed September 17, 2007. "The Shorewood High School Class of 1956 is raising money for a scholarship in fellow graduate Les Aspin's name.... He was a member of the 1956 class, which will celebrate its 40th class reunion July 20."〕 He attended Yale University, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, and graduated ''summa cum laude'' in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. In 1962, Aspin received his Master of Arts in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his Ph.D in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966.
As an officer in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968, he served as a systems analyst in the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=U.S. Department of Defense )〕 serving in the Office of Systems Analysis. Before his election as a Democrat to Congress in 1970, Aspin had been active in Wisconsin politics and had taught economics at Marquette University.
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